12 of 14 customers found the following review helpful:
 I Had No Idea How Useful It Would Be, 2002-11-13
I needed to get an ad to a magazine, in a hurry. This is not something I do regularly. They said they'd take some exotic graphic files or.... A PDF file. PDF files I knew about. Other people send them to me. I encounter them on websites. So I bought the program, had it up and running in a flash and sent it off to the publisher, knowing:-There would be no problems with compatibility
-formatting would stay the same, unlike sending a WORD file, where anything could happen. I saved my file then clicked the print option. But now, in addition to my regular printer, there was an option to print to Adobe, to create a PDF file. That's all there is to it.
I sent off the ad and saved myself time, money for overnight delivery, and worry about it coming out okay. And then something wonderful happened. The next week, I needed to send some flyers to someone to handout in LA, and I live in Philly. I could run to the copy store, then to the post office and pay $ or so to overnight it for Saturday delivery, or I could send PDF files to the local Kinkos. Acrobat saved me time and money. Next, I was surfing on the web and found a web site that had a document I wanted to quote from extensively. But it was presented as a PDF file. Normally I'd have had to key in all the text I wanted to quote. But, owning Acrobat 5.0 I was able to save the file then, select, copy and paste it so I could work with it. This is very handy. This is a great program. You'll find yourself using it again and again in situations you would have to work harder and spent more money in ordinarily.
13 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 IT'S GOOD! IT'S SMOOTH-RUNNING!, 2002-10-06
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is a smooth-running program that converts any unconverted document into a Portable Document Format, (pdf). The free (downloadable) version is good; but convenient only for viewing documents. Thus, if you must create and manipulate your own pdf files, you'll need to buy this (relatively expensive) full version. It comes with extra flexibility: including enhanced security and integration options. Very few complaints have gone against this 5.0 version. The only sour point I am aware of is that it is exorbitant.
25 of 26 customers found the following review helpful:
Essential yet simple to use, 2002-08-12
I resisted buying Acrobat 5 and tried a number of shareware/freebie and inexpensive commercial alternatives. The alternatives just aren't good enough unless you are producing uncomplicated documents in Ariel or Times Roman. While essential for the graphic artist, Acrobat embeds itself so seamlessly into your wordprocessor that you hardly notice it. From within Acrobat (the main program), it's easy to e-mail a PDF as an attachment. Editing abilities within the main program are limited. I have discovered the Web capture tool is very useful to capturing websites for offline reading and research. Since it preserves page format and the original location, you can always cite the correct URL. One piece of advice: if people reading your PDF might have old versions of Acrobat Reader, you may need to open Adobe Distiller, which sets the options for Acrobat, and make an older version of PDF the default. I've found a lot of older Acrobat Reader software can't read the newer PDF format. Finally, a plug for Amazon: fast shipping and the genuine product (not greyware or pirateware from eBay) at a great price!
22 of 25 customers found the following review helpful:
Still with a few Bugs, 2002-07-01
Overall, the product works well and is integraded nicely with Microsoft Word. The thumbnail feature works only sporadically for me, and this seems to be a problem for other site designers as well as evidenced by the number of sites also not showing thumbnails. In addition, it often crashes if not launched immediately after freshly booting the machine.
Great Product, 2002-05-04
This product is the best. Adobe hasn't made the adobe acrobat readers good when they started out early. But now it is like they are a new company. This program is great. It is definetly worth your money. mI would recomend this to people using it for personal use, buisness use or cooperate use. A great product with lots of uses.
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